HostGator

HostGator

HostGator was founded in 2002 by Brent Oxley, who was then a student at Florida Atlantic University. By 2006, HostGator had passed the 200,000 mark in registered domains.

In 2007, the company moved from the original office in Boca Raton, Florida to a new

20,000 square foot office building in Houston, Texas.

In 2008, Inc. Magazine ranked HostGator at #21 in the United States and #1 in the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas area in its list of fastest-growing companies.The same year, HostGator decided to make their hosting service green hosting by working with Integrated Ecosystem Market Services.Also in 2008, HostGator prepared for rising competition companies banding themselves as providing "unlimited" hosting services. Founder Brent Oxley was adamant about being able to back up an "unlimited" option prior to offering service named as such and increased staffing. He suggested that this move increased sales by at least 30%.

2010 saw the addition of another HostGator office - this time in Austin, Texas

In 2011, HostGator started operations in India as Hostgator.in by setting up a support office and data center. Its head office in India is located in Nashik, Maharashtra.

On 21 June 2012, CEO and founder Brent Oxley announced the impending sale of HostGator to Endurance International Group, and advised employees and users not to worry in part because Oxley would still own the buildings HostGator used. He said he wanted to travel the world before he had children. He was also candid about the failures in creating stable billing and registrar portions of HostGator, and hoped that Endurance might fix those features.

On August 26, 2013, HostGator was one of the first companies to successfully mitigate blacklisted IP’s. A large number of IP addresses were used for email gateways on virtually every webhost in the world and were blacklisted on multiple networks. As of 2013, HostGator hosts over 9 million domains.